Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-05-18

alton has a vote at the annual meeting
Remember, there are bargains, un
heard of in this city, at the store Of
Blickhahn & Co. 46
Early seed potatoes-a carload lot
received this week by Standiford, You
mans & Eldred. Al
If you want to get any of those cheap
goods at Bliekhahn & Co.'s, you must
call IN few days. 40
Those wishing any notarial work
done, conveyances written, or abstracts
made, call on G.. w. Fort. so
The Ladies' Aid Society of the NJ. E.
church meets with Mrs. Allen, on Kan
sas avenue east, on Friday afternoon.
T. a. Throckmorton, John McFadin
and George III. Sexton started for No
Man's-Land last week. They will To-
cate at Paladora.
Paint your house with ready-mixed
paints, the best in the market, warrant
ed not to crack or scale. Sold only by
SOuthwOrth, Medicine Lodge. AZ
Wood & Vincent say their trade is
steadily increasing through all the
'crying" about hard times. Courtesy
fair dealing and low prices are bound
To win. 81
The newest and latest styles of spring
millinery are now on exhibition at the
rooms of Mrs. HattOn and Stevens.
oyer the store of Byerley, Dark & Run
yam. Call and see them. A
A full line of corsets, in duplex, DR..
Balls, DIR. Warmers, Perfection, and
other styles and makes. The best IS
cents corset ever shown in this city. See
them at w. AZ. Wheeler's. SO
Jim. johnson was at Lamar, Colora-
do, last week, giving an entirely new
play-Uncle Toms Cabin. lie says ii
beats running circus. and that he is
in such demand that he could get dates
in twenty towns for every night in the
year.
Ed. l.. Smith, of the firm of Upde-
graft IL Smith, of this city, was mar
ried, at LeavenwOrth, last Wednesday,
May 18th, and returned here with his
bride last Friday. The young people
are at home on Second avenue, west.
The INDEX extends congratulations.
w. d. VanSlyke and wife started,
yesterday, to California, to be absent
three Oh four months, in the hope of the
trip benefiting Mrs. VaDSlyke's health.
They will go to Los Angeles, San Die
go. SanFranciscO, to Portland, Oregon,
and come home by the Northern route.
Regular services are held by the Ger
man Baptists at Mingona, Barber coun-
ty, the second and fourth Sundays in
each month; at Forrest school house,
two miles west of Mingona, on the Sec
ond Sunday, and at the Cedar Greek
school house on the third Sunday.
Those who conduct the services are
Elders Shamberger, Smith and Neher.
A party of Odd Fellows from this
city. made up of John Nelson, J. p.
Hall, John Dollar, j. G. Walstad, w.
III. McCague, Am. Allen, +. r. Wood
and w. s. Freeley, went over to Har-
per, last Friday, to visit the Harper
lodge, and see it confer the degrees OH
three candidates. They were royalty
entertained by their Harper brethren,
and are profuse in their words ofpraise.
The Southern Kansas railroad has
agreed to sell transportation to and
from the annual meeting of the Ger
man Baptist Brethren, (Dunkards), at
Ottawa, from May 9th to June Sd, for
one fare for the round trip. The tick
cts are good, going, from May 25th to
9th, and returning, for 80 days after
sale. 1t is expected that large dele
CATION Will attend the meeting from
Barber county.
Meade Center Democrat: There are
thirty-two new business houses under
course of construction in Meade Cen
ter, which will aggregate a cost of $40
600. John Mckay was given a trial
before Justice Lynn, Monday, on a
charge preferred by Josiah Outland,
for burglary. Mckay was bound over
to the August term of the district court,
in the sum of 5000. DIR. Otto and J. F.
Murphy going on his bond. Hon.
James a. Blair, president of the X. G.
Il s. L. railway, of Kansas City, and o.
G. Ewart, cashier of the First National
bank of Medicine Lodge, were here this
week, witnessing papers in the change
from the Bank of Meade Center to the
First National Bank.
On their recent trip to Lamar, COL,
John Fleming and Wayne Mckinney
purchased business lot on the princi-
pal street, and are having built store
% X so feet. +. w. Henkins purchased
two lots from o. =. Poole, and is hav-
ing built livery barn that is to be a
duplicate of the Doran Il Roberts barn
in this city. In few days Mr.. Hen
kins will remove his horses and vehicles
from this city to Lamar. John Flem-
ing and Alex. r. Mckinney will open
at Lamar an extensive wholesale and
retail drug store, in short time. 1t is
reported that Lamar prospecting, with
every prospect of being city of 10000
inhabitants this year.
A letter was received here last week
by Capt. Freeman, from an official of
the Kansas and Panhandle railroad
company, stating that Jay Gould had
agreed to build the road and take up
the subsidies voted in this county. On
the other hand, We have seen a letter,
dated May u, from Mr.. Simmons, of
the Hrm of Siddell & Simmons, of New
York, who are supposed to be part of
the Panhandle company, in which he
says that he has not yet succeeded in
getting Mr.. Gould to agree to build the
road. There appears to be consider
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